LONDON (Reuters) - When France's presidential candidates get together for a formal debate later on Monday, they will at least have one thing to agree on -- the country's economy is lagging others that have already had recent votes.

As the following graphic -- bit.ly/2mHgixb -- shows, French unemployment, still over 10 percent, is far higher than in the United States, Britain and the Netherlands.

France also lags well behind in economic growth. Taking the beginning of 2007 as a base, its economy has expanded only 6.3 percent in 10 years. By contrast, the Netherlands has grown more than 7.5 percent, Britain more than 11 percent and the United States over 14 percent.